Tennessee Riverkeeper's Kickoff Fundraiser Feb. 19
February 19th, 2010
Mark Martin
The Tennessee River at Decatur, Alabama in the snow, 2010…
The Tennessee Riverkeeper, a new environmental watchdog non-profit group, is hosting its first concert fundraiser Friday, Feb. 19, in Decatur, Alabama at “The Brick Tavern and Deli.”
A $5 suggested donation can be made at the door, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Tennessee Riverkeeper’s efforts to protect the river. The event, organized by David Whiteside, who founded Tennessee Riverkeeper in 2009 and Black Warrior Riverkeeper in 2001, kicks off at 8 p.m.
Whiteside is the godson of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who is the President and a Founder of Waterkeeper Alliance. David Whiteside’s great-uncle, Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. made a number of landmark civil rights rulings that helped end segregation in the South.
In the words of journalist and historian Bill Moyers, Judge Johnson “altered forever the face of the South.” David Whiteside served as a political correspondent for MTV Choose or Lose 2008 — an Emmy Award-winning project with 51 state-based citizen journalists covering the 2008 presidential elections from a youth perspective, across all media platforms: web, mobile, broadcast and virtual.
“The communities of the Tennessee Valley are all interconnected neighbors upstream and downstream and everyone needs clean water, whether you’re black or white, rich or poor, Republican or Democrat,” Whiteside said. “We advocate for the watershed to ensure that future generations will inherit safe, clean water in their communities.”
“The performers at this event are renowned in Muscle Shoals, Nashville and across America,” Whiteside said a a press release for the event. For more, see below…
